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The push-back chronicles

Like old age, the Christ of the Gospels – the real Christ, not the warm and fuzzy substitute – is not for sissies. Often He is not even charming. Ask the money changers outside the Temple if he knew how to crack a whip. Ask the Roman soldiers if He could take a beating. Ask the thief on Golgotha what kind of man he was [1]